Personally I would not recommend it. If you have ever followed someone with any thing tied to the ladder, you think, what would happen if it came off? Most of what I have seen, has been swinging and bouncing around. I removed my ladder after discovering all of the plastic ends that mount the rungs to the rails were broken or cracked severely. I have new plastic ends to replace all of them, but decided to leave it off and carry a folding ladder for now since we are not packed to the gills.